Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — “NO COMPROMISE" [ARTICLE]

“NO COMPROMISE"

With Progressives Except It all Comes Our Way, Say Republicans The republicans of the CarrollWlhite circuit had a peculiar situation to face at their judicial convention held at Monticello Wednesday. L. D. Boyd of Delphi, who had been a candidate for the nomination for come time, was nominated only Monday before by the Progressives, who in a resolution, stated that should Boyd be “nominated by the republican convention such nomination would be considered endorsed and approved by this convention, and such nominee will receive the support otf the Progressive Party if his name appears on an independent ticket, but that a failure of saad Republican convention to so nominate said Leander D. Boyd will be regard ed as a refusal to join the Progressive Party in nominating a nonpartisan judicial ticket, and the Progressive Party will work for the election of the nominee of their own party.” The republicans had expected all along to nominate Boyd, but they are making no compromise with the tPoogressives— except they don’t want them to put out county tickets any place—and when the convention

met Wednesday a delegate put a motion before it that all candidates 'be permitted to address the convention before nominations were made, the object being to allow Boyd to> explain that the nomination from the Progressives was a surprise to him; that he was not alied with that party and would decline the nomination of that party, but the convention voted down the motion and gave him no chance to explain. The convention then nominated “Deacon” Roach of Delphi by a vote of 18 to 11 over Boyd. Henry C. Thompson of Monon was nominated for prosecutor. Boyd, the maddest man in the state, then got up and addressed the convention and is said to have skinned the delegates from head to heels in one of the bitterest and most cutting speeches ever made in White county.